CVE-2020-16035 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Insufficient data validation in cros-disks in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the browser process to bypass noexec restrictions via a malicious file.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00191.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Google	Chrome Chrome Os

Configuration 1 [-]

AND

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

cpe:2.3:o:google:chrome_os:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data.

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-4824-1	chromium security update
EUVD	EUVD-2020-8002	Insufficient data validation in cros-disks in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 87.0.4280.66 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the browser process to bypass noexec restrictions via a malicious file.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_17.html
https://crbug.com/1139409
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-16035
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-16035

History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00121}`	epss `{'score': 0.00191}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2021-01-08T17:53:30

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:37:53.051Z

Reserved: 2020-07-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-16035

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-01-08T19:15:13.803

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:06:43.180

Link: CVE-2020-16035

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-16035 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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